Hollywood Gadfly
Puncturing Hollywood myths.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 29 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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No, Female-Written Movies Don't Earn More
A new study is going around called “Women in directing and screenwriting: the capital allocation puzzle in commercial film,” by Anja G. Huwiler, from the University of Mainz.
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Despair is a Compass
On learning to love despair.
Hi everyone, I’m traveling this week, so stay tuned for part 3 of the Black List series.
A Tale of Two Black Lists, Part 2: The Website
“The number of people who get into the [writers’] guild because they got a film produced is in the low three digits. That’s lower than the number of people who get drafted into the NFL every year. Less than the number of people who got into...
A Tale of Two Black Lists, Part 1: The Annual List
Emerging filmmakers and screenwriters are often confused by the differences between the annual Black List, founded by Franklin Leonard, and the website blcklst.com, also founded by Franklin Leonard.
The first is an annual list of Hollywoo...
AI Is Making Hypocrites Of Us All
I got into an online fight with Raquelle David, a Hollywood manager I suspected of using AI. Here are the painful receipts.
“I’m worried about the relationship between humans and humans, something happens to the way that you can speak to a...
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